Support Anglicare's Winter Pantry Appeal and help people in need.

With this winter biting hard, requests on Anglicare ACT for emergency relief has reached an unprecedented level. Shelving in their food pantry is now literally bare. Help people in need and drop off your pantry donation to 666 ABC Canberra.

The rising cost of living in Canberra - everything from rents to heating bills - is taking its toll and there are more people than ever knocking on Anglicare's door for help.

That is why we are asking you to support Anglicare's Winter Pantry Appeal by dropping off grocery donations at the ABC studios in Dickson, corner of Northbourne and Wakefield Avenues, weekdays between 9-5pm.

All the food is used to help people here in Canberra through Anglicare programs and partners like St Johns Care.

Any food donation needs to be non-perishable. Think about the three meals for a family: breakfast, lunch and dinner.

With this in mind, Anglicare is particularly asking for long-life milk, cereals, spreads such as vegemite for school lunches and large tins of fish for dinners.

They are also desperately short of basic hygiene products which are really expensive to buy for families on a limited budget such as toilet paper, female hygiene items, nappies and in particular tooth paste.